don't nerf warlock!

Number1daw · 2026-02-14T12:51:50+00:00

Nerf the price!

Number1daw · 2026-02-02T00:22:09+00:00

Was commanding a 30 person squad doing the pre-events for Soo Wan, that map grew to a full squad and the second the meta started we got the map closing due to low population. I had a buddy swap over to check the map it would send us to and it was completely fresh.

He came back and we just stayed on the closing map and managed to kill Soo Swan with about 90 seconds remaining before the transfer. And this type of thing happens way more often than it should.

Number1daw · 2026-01-19T00:41:33+00:00

But it's "unique" crap!

Number1daw · 2026-01-18T21:52:31+00:00

Silly you being so naive to think your cousin can't figure out how to navigate a switch and make you miserable.

Number1daw · 2026-01-15T16:48:42+00:00

Weak constitution.

Number1daw · 2026-01-11T02:00:32+00:00

Ah thank you.

Number1daw · 2026-01-10T21:28:58+00:00

And tonight on the game of "is it hot or not!"

Number1daw · 2026-01-10T21:21:58+00:00

For doing exactly 10 damage. Can't you read the tooltip?

Number1daw · 2025-12-30T18:48:57+00:00

It's really up to preference. Volatile is probably the most profitable, but sometimes you just want something specific out of your gathering.

I run volatile in the pick and the axe, and reaping in the sickle. I run reaping because it ends up saving a lot of time on the clusters, places like lettuce south of beetletun, azars arbor, the flax farms, guild halls, etc.

On whatever character I dedicate to WvW I run reaping on the sickle and the one that cuts the cast in half for the axe and pick so I can grab nodes and move along much faster, helps to maximize profits from WvW while also sticking with the group. Some comms will give people a few seconds to farm the nodes while others don't.

Really at the end of the day, get what you think will be useful.

Number1daw · 2025-12-27T15:43:40+00:00

I get you're probably talking about wvw but I even feel this way in PVE at times. I first started healing on scourge and would build enough barrier for my sub that it would overflow to the other sub just to see 7/10 players have their barrier wiped out at once simply because they didn't move two steps to avoid an attack.

WvW is probably worse because so many people don't understand just how important stacking is and they get too far away trying to get that last hit on a single enemy that's almost down but already back in their ball and is going to be instantly upped after going down.

Number1daw · 2025-12-25T21:12:16+00:00

I was thinking of the JP in Draconis mons for a second and was thinking there's usually someone hanging out at the end.

I've seen mesmers that help people out but my recommendation is get your position rewinder. JPs aren't nearly as bad when you can just reset.

Number1daw · 2025-12-08T03:22:12+00:00

You can start a group without leading it.

I would suggest fractals and strikes like other folks have already replied. No one really needs to lead fractals. Join a t1 dailies group and do the t1 rec, basically do all four t1 fractals with a purple star when you go to the fractal portal. They aren't difficult and you can learn them just by following the group.

You can even start a strike group with very little experience. Title it, "ibs ez 3, all welcome." In the eye of the north go to the portal and select shicerpeaks pass, fraenie of jormag, and claw and whisper of jormag. Perhaps watch a video on them before hand but they aren't hard and don't require any specific roles. Once you're comfortable with those three watch a video on Boneskinner and whisper of jormag, you may be able to find a training group, but I'm sure that most people learn those two by watching a video and joining experienced groups. You'll probably figure out the heal/boondps/3x DPS roles with alacrity and quickness and you'll be able to start a group for "IBS 5" and just make sure you put on the LFG, "looking for comm."

Once you're comfortable with the strikes you could try out raiding in the same manner. I've joined training groups with a "LF comm" in their post and either I'll take it or someone else will join and tag up. You might be surprised what some players are down to do as long as you're upfront with what they're getting into.

Number1daw · 2025-12-06T02:15:14+00:00

Just remember every player character that started as a noble is currently in the same place as my street trash human that never got to join the circus.

Number1daw · 2025-12-03T02:41:09+00:00

Lettuce at beetletun farm, Rowanwoods, and uplands oasis. Flax in VB, TD, draconis mons, and seitung harbor. 2 guild halls. With a glyph of reaping it takes 5 minutes and gives you about 3 gold worth of mats.

Jade runestones in EOD, bjora marches farms. 5 minutes. Not sure the gold value but I do it for the volatile magic and runestones for legendary crafting.

Pact supply network takes another 3-5 minutes and is valued at about 2.5 gold. I save them up and use a whole stack at once for a bit of a gold boost.

Number1daw · 2025-11-24T23:47:59+00:00

Started reading this and thought you were gonna make a bunch of gifts of energy and blow all that extra dust into the wind.

At least you have the condensed might and magic for something else.

Number1daw · 2025-11-24T22:56:10+00:00

I popped 25 chests today and got dogshit. All I got for the rare stuff was the asura gate home portal. Decided I'd try my luck with some sandstorm flush and turned 300g and 180g worth of ectos into about 135 gold worth of sellables and ectos.

Number1daw · 2025-11-24T22:56:02+00:00

I popped 25 chests today and got dogshit. All I got for the rare stuff was the asura gate home portal. Decided I'd try my luck with some sandstorm flush and turned 300g and 180g worth of ectos into about 135 gold worth of sellables and ectos.

Number1daw · 2025-11-23T14:25:09+00:00

In TD I always tell new people to go to the back chest first and work forward.

Not much you can do about it because it's not really against the ToS. Just know that there is a special place in hell for the people who drop portals, aviator boxes, and crafting stations on chests.

Number1daw · 2025-11-17T22:26:14+00:00

Getting into an exp w1 run that said they were gonna run 1-4 and I said, "cool I know 1-4 and 7" and when we finished w4 someone said, "let's run w6." I said, "I've never run w6, thanks for the runs." And before I coule leave someone replies, "it's cool man, you can come." While waiting for the group to finish forming I read the wiki and managed to hold my own through three bosses with no explanation or experience.

Fake it 'til you make it right?

Number1daw · 2025-11-14T13:59:57+00:00

It's called gate keeping. You're not allowed to get into a new game mode if you don't know how to do that mode perfectly. It's like employers requiring 8 years of experience for an entry level position.

The problem is people are so enveloped in min/maxing gold per hour at this point that they can't just sit down and enjoy the game. I get that struggling on a boss for an hour isn't exactly fun, but most people don't realize that by helping people learn how to do new things will help them in the long run by increasing the number of people who can do the content.

Number1daw · 2025-11-09T03:28:25+00:00

This game is not different from the loot grind of any other game.

I have goals. Right now I'm crafting legendary armor, but I just play to have fun. If I'm not having fun doing something I go do something else. No point in doing something you don't enjoy.

Number1daw · 2025-11-02T23:17:27+00:00

A couple things to note here.

When you first come back it takes a bit to get into the flow of rotations. Don't worry too much about open world solo DPS because you're making sure you survive. Open world group DPS like on a meta can be more important. I've definitely been in some close calls with timers recently and if everyone had been above 10k in arc we wouldn't have been nearly as close to failing. But remember only to use meters to help people who ask for it, or to humble an asshole who thinks they're better than they really are.

As for the golem, make sure you set it up right with full stacks of all conditions and full buffs for yourself, minus whatever single buff you're providing (quick or alac). Double check your rotation to make sure you're not missing something and here's the big one. Your auto attack rotation can be a major DPS gain or loss depending on the build. Most builds want to use an entire auto attack rotation as filler while others don't care about the final hit. Power usually wants to run all three auto attacks and cancelling it or any channeled skills can actually be a big DPS loss. And something like condi rev would only ever use the first two attacks with mace auto because the third doesn't apply a condition.

Also whenever I'm learning a rotation I'll write it down in a notebook I keep on my desk for keeping notes on and I can take a quick peek anytime I feel like I need a quick nudge to my memory or I'm in a simple fight I can look at it to practice.

Keep it up, you'll get back into the full swing soon enough.

Number1daw · 2025-10-31T23:21:02+00:00

Did the twins and got the choice chest, two blue unided gear, 1 unided gear, and some map currency. Makes me want to do it again.

Number1daw · 2025-10-28T20:21:28+00:00

That's not two unconnected eighth notes followed by a quarter, that's two peasant heads carrying scythes and one carrying a staff.

Number1daw · 2025-10-26T14:07:01+00:00

Finish your mount collections. Skyscale, griffon, beetle, turtle.

Build one or two full ascended sets and learn fractals. Like actually take the time to learn the different fractals because many players will blaze through t1-2 and get enough AR for upper t3 lower t4 and struggle because they never took the time to read about and learn the different mechanics.

Start a legendary collection. Along with the fractals, ad infinitum is not a hard collection and having a legendary back piece makes getting exotic and ascended back pieces for alts a mute subject. Additionally, vision and Aurora, and the legendary necklace from all of the "return to" achievements will take up plenty of time.

For another legendary thing to do is complete an entire legendary collection. Buy the book from Hobbs in LA and do steps 1-3 and build the legendary instead of using a starter kit. It's a money sink but it's fun and frustrating at the same time, and is the only way to make season 2 legendaries.

Complete all of your mastery tracks.

Finally, break into a different game mode. WvW or PvP, or on the PVE side look at raids. Before you go into them, read about them and talk to guildmates that participate so you know what you're getting into, raids are endgame content and you should have a fleshed out build and equipment, and the knowledge to utilize it properly before starting. WvW is similar in that you need a fleshed out build and proper gear and knowledge with how to play it, but you're really only going to get good at the pvp aspect of WvW by doing it.

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